Sophomore wins competitive biotechnology internship as sequencing technician

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has selected Carolina Temple of Huntsville, Ala., a sophomore at the University of Richmond, for a two-month biotechnology internship.

Temple is working this summer through the institute’s BioTrain program as a sequencing technician with iXpressGenes, a company located with HudsonAlpha in the Cummings Research Park in Huntsville. Internships are crafted “with specific skill sets in mind to benefit students based on their areas of interest and concentration,” said Adam Hott, HudsonAlpha’s education outreach coordinator.

Internships include science, biology and genomic areas, as well as communications, education and marketing. Since its inception in 2000, BioTrain has accepted 88 students out of more than 1,300 applications. Less than 10 percent of this year’s 300 applicants received internships.

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